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August 9, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the CCP, released the following statement on today’s executive order by President Joe Biden regarding outbound investments on key technology deemed a national security priority.


July 28, 2023

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN) led 56 of their colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting the Biden Administration take executive action to provide relief to high-skilled employment-based visa holders.


July 28, 2023

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Glenn "GT" Thompson (R-PA) led 10 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su calling for the Department to work with Congress to support employers' shifts to skills-based hiring practices to counter the challenges caused by many industries requiring college degrees to work jobs that simply do not r


July 21, 2023

WASHINGTON –Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi responded to the NFL's announcement that it would fine Daniel Snyder a record $60 million, by far the largest penalty ever levied against a team owner, after he was found, in a


July 18, 2023

WASHINGTON – On Friday, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) introduced H.R. 4647, the High-Skilled Immigration Reform for Employment(HIRE) Act, which would strengthen U.S. competitiveness by helping to close the skills gap – the space between the skills required for jobs that employers need to fill, and the skills possessed by current prospective employees.


July 13, 2023

WASHINGTON – Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously passed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (IAA), which included key provisions led by Congressman Krishnamoorthi.


July 12, 2023

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's bill to rename the St. Charles East Side Station Post Office as the "Veterans of the Vietnam War Memorial Post Office" was voted on and passed unanimously by the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. This is the latest development in the legislative process to ensure that the post office is formally renamed.